IC 1372

IC 1372

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
381 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 381 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1372 as it looked roughly 381 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

Nearest galaxies
NGC 7065Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
NGC 7065ASpiral39 million ly
apart
IC 1357Barred spiral41 million ly
apart
NGC 7121Barred spiral44 million ly
apart
IC 1383Barred spiral47 million ly
apart
IC 1371Elliptical50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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